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I must say that India is not alone. I mean in our work we have exposed billions of dollars of corruption all over the world. And the First World is also not at all immune from it. Frequently we see the developing world corruption being facilitated by First World banks, which suck the money offshore and so on. And, in fact, India accounts for some of the highest amounts of deposits in Swiss banks, which must be questioned as to what that money is doing there.
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Unlike some other States, the policies adopted by the Kerala government helped to prevent suicide by farmers.
Kerala perhaps is the only state that saw a drop in food production. No wonder fewer farmers are committing suicide.
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has heaped praise on The Hindu, reports Hasan Suroor from London, in The Hindu itself.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/article1685298.ece
But he has left out the juicy part of the “rare public appearance” of Julian.
Here is what The Guardian adds…
'But the political commentator Douglas Murray, director of the centre for social cohesion, challenged Assange over the website’s sources of funding, its staffing and connections with the Holocaust denier Israel Shamir, who has worked with the site.
“What gives you the right to decide what should be known or not? Governments are elected. You, Mr Assange are not.”
Murray also challenged the WikiLeaks founder over an account in a book by Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding, in which the authors quote him suggesting that if informants were to be killed following publication of the leaks, they “had it coming to them”.
Assange repeated an earlier assertion that the website “is in the process of suing the Guardian” over the assertion, and asked if Murray would like to “join the queue” of organisations he was suing.
The Guardian has not received any notification of such action from WikiLeaks or its lawyers.
Jason Cowley, the editor of the New Statesman and chair of the debate, interjected to ask: “How can the great champion of open society be using our libel laws to challenge the press?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/09/
julian-assange-wikileaks-public-debate
Please see this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/09/
julian-assange-wikileaks-public-debate
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has heaped praise on The Hindu, reports Hasan Suroor from London, in The Hindu itself.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/article1685298.ece
But he has left out the juicy part of the “rare public appearance” of Julian.
Here is what The Guardian adds…
'But the political commentator Douglas Murray, director of the centre for social cohesion, challenged Assange over the website’s sources of funding, its staffing and connections with the Holocaust denier Israel Shamir, who has worked with the site.
“What gives you the right to decide what should be known or not? Governments are elected. You, Mr Assange are not.”
Murray also challenged the WikiLeaks founder over an account in a book by Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding, in which the authors quote him suggesting that if informants were to be killed following publication of the leaks, they “had it coming to them”.
Assange repeated an earlier assertion that the website “is in the process of suing the Guardian” over the assertion, and asked if Murray would like to “join the queue” of organisations he was suing.
The Guardian has not received any notification of such action from WikiLeaks or its lawyers.
Jason Cowley, the editor of the New Statesman and chair of the debate, interjected to ask: “How can the great champion of open society be using our libel laws to challenge the press?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/09/julian-assange-wikileaks-public-debate
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